The effect of simulator motion on pilot control behaviour for agile and inert helicopter dynamics

35th European Rotorcraft Forum 2009, ERF 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 1051-1063

  Nieuwenhuizen, Frank M ^a   Zaal, Peter M T ^b   Teufel, Harald J ^a   Mulder, Max ^b   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ACTIVITIES; CONTROL STRATEGIES; FLIGHT TRAINING; HELICOPTER CONTROL; HELICOPTER DYNAMICS; LATERAL MOTION; LATERAL TRACKING; MOTION BASE SIMULATORS; MOTION COMPONENTS; MOTION SIMULATOR; MOTION SPACE; MULTI-MODAL; OPEN LOOP CHARACTERISTIC; PILOT CONTROL; PILOT MODEL; PILOT PERFORMANCE; ROTATIONAL MOTION; SIMULATOR MOTION; TRACKING PERFORMANCE; TRANSLATIONAL MOTIONS;

AIRCRAFT; EXPERIMENTS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; SIMULATORS;

SPACE SIMULATORS;

EID: 77952361698     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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